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THE FIFTH BOOK OF MOSES CALLED<br/>
<span class=large>DEUTERONOMY</span>
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CHAPTER 15
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Every seven years all debts shall be released—Care for poor enjoined—Hebrew servants to be released and given gifts during seventh year—Firstling males of herds and flocks are the Lord’s.
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At</span> the end of <i>every</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/15/1a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Sabbatical Year.">seven</a> years thou shalt make a <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/15/1b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE pardoning or cancellation of debts.">release</a>.
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And this <i>is</i> the manner of the <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/15/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 31: 10.">release</a>: Every creditor that lendeth <i>ought</i> unto his neighbour shall release <i>it;</i> he shall not exact <i>it</i> of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>’s release.
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Of a foreigner thou mayest exact <i>it again:</i> but <i>that</i> which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;
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<sup>a</sup><a href="deut/15/4a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB To the end that there may be no needy.">Save</a> when there shall be no poor among you; for the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall greatly bless thee in the land which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God giveth thee <i>for</i> an inheritance to possess it:
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Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day.
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For the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/15/6a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Borrowing.">borrow</a>; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.
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&#182; If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/15/7a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE cities, towns (also v. 22).">gates</a> in thy land which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/15/7b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Hardheartedness.">harden</a> thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/15/7c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Poor; TG Welfare.">poor</a> <sup>d</sup><a href="deut/15/7d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Brotherhood and Sisterhood.">brother</a>:
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But thou shalt open thine <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/15/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Almsgiving.">hand</a> wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, <i>in that</i> which he <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/15/8b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB needs.">wanteth</a>.
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Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/15/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 88: 67 (67-68).">eye</a> be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/15/9b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 24: 15.">cry</a> unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
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Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.
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For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/15/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Generosity.">hand</a> wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
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&#182; <i>And</i> if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/15/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lev. 25: 39 (39-43).">sold</a> unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.
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And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:
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Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/15/14a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR threshing floor.">floor</a>, and out of thy winepress: <i>of that</i> wherewith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
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And thou shalt <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/15/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Matt. 7: 12.">remember</a> that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day.
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And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee;
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Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust <i>it</i> through his <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/15/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 21: 6.">ear</a> unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever.  And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.
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It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/15/18a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE at half the cost of a hired worker.">worth</a> a double hired servant <i>to thee,</i> in serving thee six years: and the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.
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&#182; All the <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/15/19a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 13: 2; Mosiah 2: 3.">firstling</a> males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/15/19b" mark="b" type="A" title="Lev. 22: 2.">sanctify</a> unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/15/19c" mark="c" type="P" title="HEB cattle.">bullock</a>, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.
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Thou shalt eat <i>it</i> before the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God year by year in the <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/15/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 12: 5 (5-6); 1 Kgs. 8: 29 (26-30).">place</a> which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall choose, thou and thy household.
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And if there be <i>any</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/15/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lev. 22: 20; 1 Pet. 1: 19 (18-20).">blemish</a> therein, <i>as if it be</i> lame, or blind, <i>or</i> <i>have</i> any <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/15/21b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR serious.">ill</a> blemish, thou shalt not <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/15/21c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Sacrifice.">sacrifice</a> it unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God.
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Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/15/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 12: 15.">unclean</a> and the clean <i>person</i> <i>shall eat it</i> alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.
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Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.
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